Jenna Garrett captions:
Photographer Kimiko Yoshida sheds her skin and trappings of identity through her bizarre, disarming body of work. PAINTING. SELF-PORTRAIT, 2007-2010 directs our gaze in one thousand places, finally rendering the viewer unable to distinguish the artist from the whole. PAINTING. SELF-PORTRAIT is the anti-portrait, a refusal be known and a declaration that it is impossible to be understood.
In speaking of her “monochrome” images, the artist herself is the one who dissolves into the background, the bright colors and bizarre clothing purposely taking center stage in ways both familiar and uneasy. Repurposing a number of materials, Yoshida often improperly wears European couture and appropriates titles of Western fine art. From Warhol to Picasso, the artist has reference without recreation.
(Photo: 67 Painting (Elizabeth I by Nicholas Hilliard). Self-Portrait, 2010, by Kimiko Yoshida)
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